Signal is aware of the blocks.

“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”

I’m not living in uk, i live in italy. I saw every kind of comment written on italian social networks and i have never seen a conviction. When the police had taken the names of protesters, ( not arrested ) we had a public outcry. We had arrest for direct call for violence, not simply rants. So seeing people jailed for rants on twitter scares me. We have actual fascists and communists, both parties were strong, and we had an actual civil war. We have strong linguistic minorities and regional parties. So a lot of people hating each other. Who decide the right speech in such a situation?

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Are people really jailed for rants in the UK? I’ve only seen stories of actual call to violence.

The line between rants and call for violence is quite blurred in some cases IMHO

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Can you give an exemple of such case in the recent events in the UK?

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false informations , even worst, newspapers publish false information ( rumors ) every day

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So she has been arrested, not jailed. We don’t know much about this specific case yet but this has nothing to do with a rant, like you said.

Ok, not a rant, a fake news…

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A fake news meant to stir up racial hatred.

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Lol, so ban every news… We have politicians telling worst thing that a simple fake news and no one riot. Maybe a thousand of rapes in one city could cause it. Here ONE rape is a news with the name and the nationality of the criminal. Why the people that havr covered that are not in jail?

I have some bad news for you. There is no right answer

And normaly it is very difficult to be comdemned for a generic rant. It is easier in case of insults or defamtion, but it is mostly an high fee. Jailing a political adversary for a speech ( when we had a lot of political/mafia killing in the past ) is a big no. We had actual people killed for their speech.

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That movie director that got killed 50 years ago is a wild story.

Yes, i think you talk about Peppino Impastato , he was killed cause he joked about mafia.

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